Description

• First Thus [The Easton Press, Connecticut, 1996]; xxii, 397pp; dark red leather, seven raised bands, gold titling & decorations, black JA to front board, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, silk marker, a little rubbed with some slight loss of gold decorations, 8mm black mark on front block edge, v. light scattered spots of foxing on preliminaries, a very good copy
• With illustrations by CE & HM Brock
• Frontispiece portrait of Austen by Lawrence Beall Smith
• Collector’s Edition in the Easton Press The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written [and, we might suggest, at the pointy end of that list!]